The full list of the resources we plan to include in the first launch of Manuscripts Online in January 2013:
- Middle English Dictionary – the authoritative reference work for Middle English from 1100-1500; over 15,000 entries with citations.
- Manuscripts of the West Midlands – catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the English West Midlands, c. 1300-1475; detailed descriptions of more than 150 manuscripts
- Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220 – catalogue of manuscripts, especially those containing literary materials, written principally in English from c. 1060 to 1220
- Imagining History: Perspectives on Late Medieval Vernacular Historiography – a database of descriptions of the Middle English Prose Brut
- Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550 – a new account of English vernacular lives of Christ derived from the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi.
- Middle English Grammar Project – the Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C); Middle English texts transcribed from manuscript or facsimile reproduction
- Late Medieval English Scribes – catalogue of all scribal hands in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors
- The Norman Blake Editions of the Canterbury Tales – a series of online editions which present full diplomatic transcriptions of seven manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
- The Auchinleck Manuscript – digital edition of the Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS Adv MS 19.2.1)
- Europa Inventa – descriptive catalogue of medieval manuscripts held within Australian institutions
- The Cause Papers of the Church Courts of the diocese of York – descriptive catalogue with accompanying images
- The Taxatio – detailed records of the assessment of English and Welsh ecclesiastical wealth undertaken in 1291-2
- British History Online – transcriptions and databases, ranging from administrative and ecclesiastical history to economic and intellectual history
- British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance – c.500,000 pages of searchable metadata with accompanying digital facsimile images
- Early English Books Online – metadata and digital facsimile images of 782 printed volumes between the year 1473 to 1500.
- EEBO Text Creation Partnership (subscription) – approx. 136 full-text transcriptions of the Early English Books Online volumes
- Parker on the Web – high resolution images and detailed cataloguing of 559 manuscripts
- The National Archives – Descriptive catalogues for all documents dating between 1000 and 1500 from collections such as the State Papers, records of the Admiralty, Chancery and Exchequer, the Court of the King’s Bench and Petitions and Seals
- Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts – British Library’s descriptive catalogue of 2,000 illuminated manuscripts originating in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
- Compendium of Middle English Prose and Verse – c. 150 full-text transcriptions of literary and administrative works
- TEAMS Middle English Texts – more than 400 annotated editions of key literary works for teaching and research
We will post fuller profiles of some of the resources over the coming months.
NB: some of these are subscriber-only resources. Everyone will be able to search their textual content on MSSO and see results with short snippets of text for context, but only users with subscription access will be able to view the actual resources.
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Very good list. I’m not entirely clear as to how you plan to integrate these things, so this might not be useful: but on the Latin end of things, you might also consider including Lewis & Short and Du Cange (the source files for both are freely available in a very tidy format), as well as the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, once it is finished.
Andrew – many thanks for these suggestions. We have the Lewis and Short, I think, but I haven’t seen the Du Cange before – it looks great! We’ve also looked at the Dictionary… from British Sources project but it’s not clear if it will be available to us in time to use for the project (we have some very tight deadlines).
For more information about how the project will work, take a look at our About page and also the project page for Connected Histories; MSSO uses the same methodology.